Commercial rhizobial inoculants significantly enhance growth and nitrogen fixation of a promiscuous soybean variety in Kenyan soils

Biology and Fertility of Soils

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 87-96

  Thuita, Moses ^a,b   Pypers, Pieter ^b   Herrmann, Laetitia ^b   Okalebo, Robert John ^a   Othieno, Caleb ^a   Muema, Esther ^b   Lesueur, Didier ^b,c  

^a MOI UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^b Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute of the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture   (Kenya)

^c UMR ECO SOLS   (France)

Author keywords

Competition; Inoculants; Nodule occupancy; Rhizobial inoculants; Soybean

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; CROP PRODUCTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROWTH RATE; HIGH YIELDING VARIETY; INFECTIVITY; INOCULATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; RHIZOBACTERIUM; SOIL TYPE; SOYBEAN;

AFRICA;

GLYCINE MAX; RHIZOBIUM; TRAGELAPHUS ANGASII;

EID: 84855331909     PISSN: 01782762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00374-011-0611-z     Document Type: Article

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